Elstree Film Studios - Training Courses - Creating Flash Banners and Advertisements
Please note that this course has now been incorporated into our Flash Animation and Design Training Course. If there are dates listed at the bottom of this page, they will relate to the new course.Most web sites use static images to impress their audience, but on the occasions when a more exiting, dynamic and attention-grabbing effect is required, the indisputable tool of choice is Macromedia Flash. In addition, with the popularity of banner advertising at an all-time high this vital skill is indispensable for promoting your companies products and services via the Internet.
This intensive and enjoyable 1 day course shows you how to create powerful and eye-catching banners and web advertisements utilising Flash, and teaches you many of the tried and trusted methods best employed to grab your audience's attention. You will be taught how to use Macromedia Flash to animate banners and advertisements and how to use the Flash animation timeline, scenes and symbols in order to achieve this. With no prior knowledge of Flash required, you will at the end of this course be able to create original Flash animated banners and adverts for you or your clients' web pages.
Duration: 1 day.
Location: 21st Century New Media Ltd, Elstree Film Studios, Shenley Road, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, WD6 1JG. [
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Times: 10.00am to 4.30pm. For security reasons, further details are only provided upon booking.
Software Versions: All of our Adobe courses include lessons generic to both CS3 and CS4 versions of the Adobe suite: whichever version you use is covered in detail. In addition, we also now preview the functionality of the new Adobe CS5 suite. Our Apple training courses utilise the latest versions of Final Cut Studio HD (also known of as version 3 or FCS 2009).
Equipment: Our fully featured training room includes six top-of-the-range iMac computers configured to work in both Macintosh (OSX) and PC (Windows) modes, ensuring you the maximum familiarity with your chosen operating system.
Courseware: The book which accompanies this course is posted to you upon payment confirmation.
Accommodation & Transport: Details of local accomodation and transport can be found
here.
Further assistance: Our
FAQ help page contains the answers to many popular questions. Alternatively please call
0844 844 2428 to arrange to speak to our training manager.
COURSE CONTENT
Introducing Flash
- Introduction to the Flash interface
- Banner types: Animated, Video & Interactive
- Banner sizes and dimensions
- Stage sizes and properties
- Panels and panel layouts
Creating and Importing Graphic Assets
- Working with different graphic formats
- Importing bitmap graphics
- Importing vector graphics
- Working with layers and layer folders
- Using the drawing tools
- Using object and merge drawing
- Working with the Colour panels
- Creating and using Graphic symbols
- Using the Library panel
Using Type Effectively
- Using the Text tool
- Adding and formatting static text
- Changing font rendering methods
- Adding input text fields
- Embedding fonts in input text fields
- Using font best practices
Creating Animations
- Working with the Timeline
- Using keyframes, blank keyframes, and frames
- Creating motion tweens
- Creating shape tweens
- Creating transition effects
- Using animation: best practice
Adding ActionScript
- Basic ActionScript functions: Stop, Play
- Linking to external websites
Using Movie Clips
- Creating and using Movie Clip symbols
- Organizing a Movie Clip Timeline
- Using actions to control a Timeline
- Using frame labels
Publishing Flash Documents
- Using different publishing formats
- Using publishing profiles
- Adding Flash Player detection
- Publishing for deployment
